[Python-ideas] Need help converting HTML doc to ReST

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 January 2015 at 04:35, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> Thank you so much!! It is already live on legacy.python.org/dev/peps/ (www
>> seems to lag behind or require a manual kick).
>
> I haven't dug into the details to confirm it yet (not enough
> roundtuits), but my current theory for the lag with new PEPs is that
> the 404 response is getting cached somewhere, and taking ~45 minutes
> to expire. That theory came from a commit where I both updated an
> existing PEP and added a new one, and the updates came through
> quickly, but the new one took nearly an hour to become available.

In this case, there was a stub PEP before the change went through.
After the first change, I pushed a separate commit that updated the
copyright/license; both changes were separately visible on Legacy
while the primary site still showed the stub.

ChrisA